- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press (May 10 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0714841064
- ISBN-13: 978-0714841069
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 15 x 5.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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#558,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #70 in Books > Arts & Photography > Fashion > Commercial
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'Visually, this book is spot-on, Its clean typeface and layouts mirror Halston's honed style... stuffed with lavish, informative pictures.'
Product Description
As the creator of Jackie Kennedy's signature pillbox hat and the designer of choice for Liza Minelli in the 1970s, Halston (193290) was synonymous with American style: a modern, minimal yet glamorous look that encompassed everything from flowing caftans to ultrasuede dresses, to uniforms that lent panache to airline attendants and The Girl Scouts of America alike. Beginning his career in Chicago in the late 1950s, by 1972 Halston had been named 'the premier fashion designer of all America' by Newsweek magazine and was firmly established in New York; he counted such personalities as Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger among his friends and clients. Tall, charismatic, impeccably dressed, Halston personified the lofty ambitions and non-stop nightlife of the 1970s and early 1980s.This book, a visual anthology of Halston's life and legacy, includes previously unpublished catwalk photographs, rare archival photographs by Warhol, behind-the-scenes images of fashion shows and parties, sketches and specially commissioned photographs of Halston collections.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Impressive chronicle of his time,
This review is from: Halston (Paperback)
A concise but seriously impressive rendering of Halston's visual history charmingly riddled with grammatical errors throughout. Almost every point in his development is illustrated including hard to find pictures of his sexy/seedy home in New York. Essential for anyone interested in fashion...
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The Fashion-ista's Favorite,
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This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
WOW. A knock-out! Bluttal has cumulated a splendid chronicle of the career of America's definitive fashion star, Roy Frowick Halston.The book gathers and presents the photographic richness that you must have to know why Halston mattered and continues to. The sequence, arrangement, and ingenious categories all articulate the Halston passion for pure color, form and line that made him legend and attracted the star-studded clientele and the trademarking of his family name as a label still very much in evidence today, a decade after his death. Wistful nostalgia over the Studio 54 years and the innocence of New York in those years are the only drawback of paging through this tome. BRAVO BLUTTAL! Your fat fat fashion clutch should be on every gift list - the best fashion bargain of the year!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice pictures, strange size,
By Clay in Indy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
The book is great if you are just looking for a collection of Halstons's fashion photos. There are really great shots of the clothes, and a lot of the glamorous people that wore them. The book, however, is a really strange size. It's really small, but really thick (6" by 4",and about 3 inches thick). I was anticipating a coffee table type book, but this is too odd of a size to display lying on a table. The text was a bit random and sparse, and the type identifying the photos was difficult to read on several pages. I liked it overall, but it will end up on shelf and I probably won't pick it up very often.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Fashion-ista's Favorite,
By D. Donohue "dungha" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
WOW. A knock-out! Bluttal has cumulated a splendid chronicle of the career of America's definitive fashion star, Roy Frowick Halston.The book gathers and presents the photographic richness that you must have to know why Halston mattered and continues to. The sequence, arrangement, and ingenious categories all articulate the Halston passion for pure color, form and line that made him legend and attracted the star-studded clientele and the trademarking of his family name as a label still very much in evidence today, a decade after his death. Wistful nostalgia over the Studio 54 years and the innocence of New York in those years are the only drawback of paging through this tome. BRAVO BLUTTAL! Your fat fat fashion clutch should be on every gift list - the best fashion bargain of the year!! 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
SIZE QUEEN ! great one but tiny,
By gayequalrights "michael" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
The only thing I object to ,is trying to contain HALSTON to a 5 x 7 inch format .Whos idea was that ? The man was large ,the times were large and then This Book is small! RE DO IT ,About the size of interview magazine ,POO POO on the Size
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